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One of the more surprising tweets I saw yesterday….
Everything is setting itself up. Fran has that infectious energy that is not only spreading through the community, but he’s a viral quote machine for national media. The way he manages the program star alumni want to come back and be part of something. No more hiding the team away from december-July hoping for some fluke advantage that will never come. No more hiding players and even coaches from the media. This is exactly what we all, or at least most of us, wanted. We now have as much, if not more access than we ever had before. No more playing coy with injuries. Most importantly, no more playing scared.!What do you think works better? Trusting the coaches and players enough to empower them to have the confidence to talk to the media, or hiding them away?
Getting carried away a little bit, but this sort of reminds me when a little known WR coach took over Clemson. It took him a few years to get the talent where it needed to be to compete consistently at the upper level, and then he had multiple viral moments the year they exploded like (BYOG: BringYour Own Guts) and later in the same speech “Rain, sleet, or snow, Tiger nation they’re gonna show”. It might have been the same year he had another: There’s no place id rather be than DEATH VALLEY South Carolina.” Point is Clemson was down for over a decade. Not nearly as bad as us but hovering around .500 until Dabo took over. It all starts with the HC, the culture he instills, and eventually the talent he brings in. We really haven’t had a great HC since Mac.
P overachieved with a severely embarrassing lack of investment, but ultimately underachieved as a HC with the talent he had and some of the games that he lost were head scratchers.
GRob, need i say more.
Marrone, great HC, especially with the lack of investment. He built a culture and had a plan of attack for recruiting no matter how much BS people give him on that front.
Shafer - I knew he was not that man when he did a trick play on a PAT to tie game, but instead had the place holder throw a pass vs. an FCS team. Also, no culture, no recruiting strategy. Remember when we used to mine the midwest for recruits and Florida for 5’11 < DB’s?
Babers - Had an identity to start, but either lost confidence, hunger, or was just a fluke because of a gimmick offense. No culture, no recruiting strategy. We were mining Hawaii at a time for OL and the northern Cali juco scene…..i hoped i had forgot about that, but apparently not.
Moral of the story is I finally think we have the right HC at the helm. Fran was pretty much perfect from a game calling standpoint last season. When is the last time we could say that? I remember being at MetLife for Shafer’s first game vs Penn St and we couldn’t even get a play in on time. Babers was easily the worst game manager i have and probably will ever see. That one season he cost us 3 straight games that we lost by 3 points.
Fran seems to have it all
culture
game mgt
recruiting
He also seems to have the notice of Syracuse fans and college football people. The above tweet shows that. Please one time let’s this be our ticket back to relevancy. Just as I was losing hope it would ever happen again, i’m sucked back in.
Everything is setting itself up. Fran has that infectious energy that is not only spreading through the community, but he’s a viral quote machine for national media. The way he manages the program star alumni want to come back and be part of something. No more hiding the team away from december-July hoping for some fluke advantage that will never come. No more hiding players and even coaches from the media. This is exactly what we all, or at least most of us, wanted. We now have as much, if not more access than we ever had before. No more playing coy with injuries. Most importantly, no more playing scared.!What do you think works better? Trusting the coaches and players enough to empower them to have the confidence to talk to the media, or hiding them away?
Getting carried away a little bit, but this sort of reminds me when a little known WR coach took over Clemson. It took him a few years to get the talent where it needed to be to compete consistently at the upper level, and then he had multiple viral moments the year they exploded like (BYOG: BringYour Own Guts) and later in the same speech “Rain, sleet, or snow, Tiger nation they’re gonna show”. It might have been the same year he had another: There’s no place id rather be than DEATH VALLEY South Carolina.” Point is Clemson was down for over a decade. Not nearly as bad as us but hovering around .500 until Dabo took over. It all starts with the HC, the culture he instills, and eventually the talent he brings in. We really haven’t had a great HC since Mac.
P overachieved with a severely embarrassing lack of investment, but ultimately underachieved as a HC with the talent he had and some of the games that he lost were head scratchers.
GRob, need i say more.
Marrone, great HC, especially with the lack of investment. He built a culture and had a plan of attack for recruiting no matter how much BS people give him on that front.
Shafer - I knew he was not that man when he did a trick play on a PAT to tie game, but instead had the place holder throw a pass vs. an FCS team. Also, no culture, no recruiting strategy. Remember when we used to mine the midwest for recruits and Florida for 5’11 < DB’s?
Babers - Had an identity to start, but either lost confidence, hunger, or was just a fluke because of a gimmick offense. No culture, no recruiting strategy. We were mining Hawaii at a time for OL and the northern Cali juco scene…..i hoped i had forgot about that, but apparently not.
Moral of the story is I finally think we have the right HC at the helm. Fran was pretty much perfect from a game calling standpoint last season. When is the last time we could say that? I remember being at MetLife for Shafer’s first game vs Penn St and we couldn’t even get a play in on time. Babers was easily the worst game manager i have and probably will ever see. That one season he cost us 3 straight games that we lost by 3 points.
Fran seems to have it all
culture
game mgt
recruiting
He also seems to have the notice of Syracuse fans and college football people. The above tweet shows that. Please one time let’s this be our ticket back to relevancy. Just as I was losing hope it would ever happen again, i’m sucked back in.
